It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.
Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.